Spirit School

We are almost at the end of the first season of the Squamish Medium on APTN, and watching it has cracked something open for me that I wanted to talk about out loud.

Vulnerability. The kind that runs through every reading, every development class, every moment someone cries in a session and apologises for it. The kind that makes mediumship one of the most humbling and healing things I have ever done.

In this episode I talk about what it was like to watch my own readings on TV for the first time, what I witnessed at Stó:lō Nation in episode eight and the healing that is still rippling out from it over a year later, why I think saying I love you is one of the most underrated evidential gifts spirit can give, what actually happened when I tried to stop crying in sessions and why I will never do that again, and a YouTube comment left on episode one that reminded me exactly why I have been doing this for thirteen years.

I also share that I am doing a group reading in Squamish on December 6th and a live workshop in North Vancouver in February. Details on my website.

I have wanted to share this story for months and I finally got to tell it, with the person I trust most to hold it.

Asha Frost is an Indigenous healer, author, and one of my oldest friends in this work. She is back on Spirit School for the third time, and this time we went somewhere we have never gone before.

I share the story of the 2026 rupture. The rent increase I opened on a plane to New Zealand. The four months that followed. Losing 30 pounds. The moment on the floor when my cleaner knocked on the door and I finally broke open. The phone call to my husband where I said for the first time: I cannot do this alone anymore.

Asha just released her new book The Inner Winter, a compassionate guide for anyone navigating burnout, chronic illness, grief, or the need to slow down. She wrote it from inside her own deepest winter, and this conversation is the best possible companion to it.

If you have been in your own winter lately, or you are trying to understand why you cannot just push through, this one is for you.

Pre-order Asha's book here: https://ashafrost.com/the-inner-winter/

This month in the Spirit School Collective, we’re honouring the shadow. In this episode, I sit down with one of my favourite people, Gracie Navarro of Graceful Healing. Gracie is a spiritual guide, medium, healer and longtime student of mine. She shares what it was like to grow up in the Jehovah’s Witness faith, believing all spirit was bad and that she would never be worthy of God’s love.

This is a tender, honest conversation about finding your way back to your own truth without disrespecting the people you love. Gracie shares how she rebuilt her relationship with Creator on her own terms. She also tells some breathtaking stories of angelic intervention, from a truck rolling down a hill to an operating room full of angels.

In this episode:

Connect with Gracie:

Gracie offers soul and spirit guidance readings, virtual and in-person healing sessions, and in-person women’s circles.

Want to go deeper? Gracie and I are continuing this conversation live in the Spirit School Collective next week.

Recorded three days before my Squamish Medium TV show premieres on APTN, I'm answering six questions that came in from you, my Instagram followers and Spirit School Collective members, about the filming experience and my path in mediumship. I get into what it was like channelling in front of cameras and a crew, whether abilities like mine fade or change over time, my advice for anyone on a spiritual path, and how my thinking on messages versus evidence has evolved. I also share how many intuitives I've mentored since 2017 and what's coming up next, including The Initiation, Spirit Speaks, and where to watch the show.

https://www.daniellesearancke.com/the-initiation

Register: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spirit-school-store/p/initiation-fall-2026 

Spirit Speaks (North Vancouver, November 14 to 15) https://www.daniellesearancke.com/vancouver-mediumship-workshop 

Spirit School Collective Join: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spiritschoolcollective 

Free community space: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/freespiritschoolcommunity  Reading Waitlist https://spirit-school.myflodesk.com/danielle-waitlist 

Spirit School Podcast Main page: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spiritschoolpodcast

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/spirit-school/id1447766702

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4w4i78Sb6jsEZw5MyhJgXT  \

Other

Private sessions with Danielle: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/danielle-searancke

Events calendar:

https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spirit-school-events 

In this episode of Spirit School, I'm sharing a few stories from my reconnection journey back to my Swampy Cree culture and my grandmother's traditional territories. Watch on Youtube as this episode is visual https://www.youtube.com/@squamishmedium  

In this episode:

This is a visual episode, if you're listening in audio, come find me on YouTube to see the tobacco plants I'm talking about.

A reminder that the Squamish Medium TV show airs September 2nd in Cree on APTN Languages and September 14th in English on APTN. We're hosting watch parties every week inside the Spirit School Collective, come join us there.

https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spiritschoolcollective - Join the Membership

https://www.daniellesearancke.com/squamish-medium-tv-show - Follow the TV Show

https://www.mqup.ca/Books/V/Voices-from-Hudson-Bay3 - Flora Beardy Book

https://www.goodminds.com/products/all-the-little-monsters-how-i-learned-to-live-with-anxiety - David Robertson Book

After three years of keeping this exciting secret, I'm finally able to share the news. Squamish Medium, my TV show, is premiering September 2 in Cree (Plains) on APTN Languages, and September 14 in English on APTN.

In this episode I go back to the beginning: mediumship readings at my kitchen table in 2013, launching this podcast in 2018, opening my in person school in 2023, and everything that led to two Indigenous women approaching me 'out of nowhere' with an idea for a TV show.

🎬 Watch the trailer and learn more: daniellesearancke.com/squamish-medium-tv-show

Thank you for growing with me. This podcast started it all.

This one started as a private exchange and became something I knew I had to share.

Eileen Himel came back into my life this year through a lot of synchronicity and divine orchestration. She works with the nonspeaking autistic community using letter boards, and when the Telepathy Tapes came out I became obsessed. So we did an exchange. She got some mentorship, I got to pick her brain. And then I asked if I could record it.

I want to have her back for a full interview once you have had a chance to listen and send me your questions. For now, here is our conversation exactly as it happened.

Go listen to Season 1 of the Telepathy Tapes before or after this episode. Then come back and tell me what you think.

Follow Eileen Himel: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/enphase_intunewithautism

JOIN SPIRIT SCHOOL: Spirit School Collective: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spiritschoolcollective Free Resources: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spiritual-development-resources

Maxine Friend has been working internationally as a psychic channel medium and mentor for over 18 years. I have been hearing her name since my very first year of practice in 2013. We finally connected in 2023 and became fast friends, and this conversation is one I have wanted to have publicly for a long time. Maxine recently reached out to me for advanced mediumship mentorship after noticing more and more spirit communication coming through her channeling sessions. What followed were three private sessions that she says transformed her practice by 150%. In this episode we talk about what actually happened, why it happened, and what advanced practitioners need to know about continuing to grow.

ABOUT MAXINE FRIEND Maxine Friend is a psychic channel medium and mentor with 18 years of international experience. Her practice is almost entirely referral based, with clients spanning decades. She channels to very high dimensional realms and works with the Akashic records, ascended masters, and spirit communication.

OIN SPIRIT SCHOOL: Spirit School Collective: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spiritschoolcollective

Part four of the chakra and mediumship series and the one I have been sitting with the longest.

The heart is the bridge chakra. Everything you did in root, sacral, and solar plexus has to integrate here before it can become service. In this video I share what happened to my mediumship in 2020 when I experienced real grief for the first time and could not do readings for months. I also talk about why ethics and integrity are not the same thing and why both of them live here in the heart.

If you work with people in grief, if you are a developing medium, or if you have ever felt fractured between what you know to be right and what you are actually doing, this one is for you.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

The Declaration, ethics certification for practitioners in unregulated spaces: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/the-declaration 

Root Chakra and Mediumship: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/the-development-journal/root-chakra-mediumship-belonging-humiliation-dignity 

Sacral Chakra and Mediumship: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/the-development-journal/sacral-chakra-mediumship-clairsentience-energy-boundaries 

Solar Plexus Chakra and Mediumship: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/the-development-journal/solar-plexus-chakra-mediumship-confidence-authority 

LINKS:

Spirit School Collective: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spiritschoolcollective 

Free Spiritual Development Resources: https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spiritual-development-resources 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/squamishmedium/ 

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I am sharing the origin story of how I became a medium and it starts with a latchkey kid coming home from school in the 1990s, turning on the TV, and watching Sylvia Browne on Montel Williams for the very first time.

Sylvia Browne was my unofficial theology growing up. I had no religion, no framework, just her on Montel every Wednesday. In this episode I talk about what she meant to me as a teenager, the letter to the universe exercise from The Other Side and Back that genuinely changed my life, and what it felt like to reconnect with her clips during the pandemic and see everything through a completely different lens.

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Follow @teiganish on Instagram for the Sylvia Browne clips I reference in this episode. The t-shirt I am wearing is from him too and shirts will be available later this year.

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